# Reading notes — <author year short-title>

**Citation (BibTeX key):** `author_year_shorttitle`
**Full citation:** Author, A., Author, B. (YYYY). *Title.* Venue. DOI / URL.
**Why I'm reading this:** one sentence. Which paper of mine does this inform (P1 / P2 / P3), or which PI on the phd-targets list does this help me read fluently?
**Read date:** YYYY-MM-DD. **Time spent:** __ min. **Reading pass:** 1 (skim) / 2 (careful) / 3 (reproduce).

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## 1. The one-sentence claim
What is this paper's single load-bearing claim, in my own words? If I need two sentences, I haven't understood it yet.

## 2. The evidence
How does the paper know its claim is true? List the *kinds* of evidence (proofs, simulations, classroom data, survey results, student work samples) and note the sample size / N.

- Evidence 1:
- Evidence 2:
- Evidence 3:

## 3. The falsifier
What would have made this paper wrong? If I can't answer this in a sentence, the paper is a position piece, not a research paper — mark it as such and downgrade my trust.

## 4. What's *actually* novel
One sentence. What did this paper do that no prior paper had done? Common traps: a new framing of an old result, a new UI for a known technique, a new population for a known intervention. All three can be novel, but I should name *which kind*.

## 5. Three things I'll steal
Concrete moves I can reuse in my own papers. A figure format, a pedagogical prompt, a statistical test, a limitation paragraph that's honest in the right way.

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## 6. Three things I'd push back on
Claims, framings, or methodological choices that I would challenge if I were reviewing this paper for PRIMUS. A paper with zero pushback usually means I read too shallowly.

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## 7. Connection to my program
How does this sharpen my version of P1 / P2 / P3? Concretely — not "it's related to," but "it changes the §N step in paper-X because…"

- P1 (MER 2.0):
- P2 (Matrices → Networks):
- P3 (AI Tutor):

## 8. Open question for Jeff
One question this paper raised that I'd put in next Monday's mentor call. Not "what do you think" — a specific decision or a specific source I want him to point me at.

## 9. Next action
The single next thing I will do because of this paper. Tag it `→ EXP-paper-NN-slug` or `→ §N of paper-X` or `→ queue for wk N`. If the next action is "read another paper," the first paper didn't move me forward enough.